For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 14, 2001

Declaration of National Emergency by Reason Of Certain Terrorist Attacks
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at the
World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon, and the
continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH,
President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, I hereby declare that the national emergency has existed
since September 11, 2001, and, pursuant to the National Emergencies Act
(50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), I intend to utilize the following
statutes: sections 123, 123a, 527, 2201(c), 12006, and 12302
of title 10, United States Code, and sections 331, 359, and 367 of
title 14, United States Code.

This proclamation immediately shall be
published in the Federal Register or disseminated through the Emergency
Federal Register, and transmitted to the Congress.

This proclamation is not intended to
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers,
or any person.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand this fourteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-sixth.